Malaysia Speed Festival (MSF) is partnering with Proton R3, the Malaysian automaker’s motorsport division for the creation of programmes aimed at developing local talent in the field of affordable motorsports. There are two programmes put forth – The MSF-R3 Mentor Program, and the MSF-R3 Ladies Racers Search.
The first of the two is the MSF-R3 Mentor Program that is open to drivers and teams participating in the MSF Superturismo with Proton race cars; this is open to race participation in any MSF Superturismo category, for example a Saga in the Saga Cup, a Saga BLM in Street 1600, Satria Neo in 1600 Ultimate, Gen 2 in Proton 1800, Wira in Street 2000, and the like.
The MSF-R3 Mentor Program will choose five drivers or teams to be taken under the wing of Proton R3 for the remaining three rounds of MSF in 2019. This does not include any financial support, however the programme offers valuable expertise from leading professionals in the field; Proton R3 certainly has form, with four wins at the Sepang 1,000 km race in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2018, among other victories.
The five lucky teams selected will get deeper insights into Proton R3’s approach towards motorsport, including classroom theory sessions on advanced race driving, discipline and development; a tour of the R3 facilities, with a briefing on top-level race car builds, preparation, setup and maintenance; driver training for advanced car control skills; karting sessions to train for wheel-to-wheel racing scenarios; and a space in the Proton R3 pit garage at MSF Superturismo for the remaining three rounds, including race support by Proton R3 technicians.
Taking place alongside the R3 mentor programme is the MSF-R3 Ladies Racers Search 2019. For this programme, participants do not necessarily need to be racing Proton cars in the MSF series, though they must be female racers currently participating in MSF – sorry, lads. Participants of the Ladies Racers Search will be chosen from an initial social media contest to undergo a selection and training process.
Drawing from the MSF-R3 Mentor Program, the selection process for the ladies will include classroom theory sessions on advanced race driving, discipline and development; a tour of the R3 facilities with a briefing on top-flight race car builds, preparation, setup and maintenance; driver training for advanced car control skills; karting sessions to train for wheel-to-wheel dogfights, and in addition to the above, test sessions the Proton R3 race cars at the Sepang International Circuit.
From this process, the programme aims to find three of the best lady racers in Malaysia and put them in participation of the Sepang 1,000 km race with the Proton R3 team, at the wheel of the factory-prepared Proton R3 Iriz race car.
You now know what it is; here’s how to enter. Record a video, take a photo or create a post on Facebook and/or Instagram explaining why you should be chosen to be part of this valuable development programme. There is no limit on the number or frequency of posts that may be published on said social media platforms, though all posts, photos and videos must be accompanied by the following identifying hashtags:
Ladies Racers Search: #msfR3ladyracers2019
Mentor Program: #msfR3mentor2019
Additional: #protonr3 #msfracing #msfsuperturismo #msfmerdekarace
To ensure visibility, privacy settings for all related posts must be set to Public. The social media contest will run from now until August 13, 2019; all posts must be uploaded before 10:00pm on August 13. For more information, head to the MSF Racing webpage with further details on the MSF-R3 Mentor Program and Ladies Racers Search by clicking here.
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Cant wait to see my favoret man tengku Djan, kih
Iriz EV not finish but can do Iriz R3? Use Geely’s resources more sensible lah.
I’m not sure about the Ladies Racers search thinggy. Scientific data shows that men/boys are interested in ‘things’ and women/girls are interested in ‘people’, hence in Scandinavian countries that have given the most equal opportunity for women, there are still more male engineers than women. Not because of oppression or the ‘patriarchy’ but their own free choices. Therefore it’s more likely, more men become racers than women for the same reasons – they’re own free choices.
Here too, the female only selection process reeks of sexism sexism against men. I’d wager that the parties involved are looking for the best talents, regardless of gender PERIOD.
What they should do is have a gender blind selection process that is open to both men and women, based on merit and abilities only. And I guarantee you that any women that can run it with the boys, can attract just as many spectators (which sells more tickets).
Janna Nick should change to this racing series. A more serious and professionally setup and supported race.
Janna nick is not the overall champion of the Toyota Vios challenge 2018 – Diana Danielle is.
Diana is way past here popularity. She’s just too old for the younger crowd
In our society sexism exist. Abolish your kahwin empat first. That will be a good start to begin with equal opportunities.
But any age at around that time, were considered to be “ripe,” like ripe ready fruit.
well said. Bini 4 must stop first.
Sexism? I dont see it. Where? Point it out. And how does it relate to doing right and making them an honest women? Better than keeping mistresses.
Only a sexist will see sex everywhere talk about sexism where there is none. Have you trolled too hard these past few articles that you’ve totally lost your marbles?
proton r3 already has a strong roster of male drivers, and have won the sepang 1000km race in 2017 and 2018 with those drivers. they also have in the team this year, mitchell cheah who is a very talented new driver. he has won 2nd overall in one of the rounds of the ADAC TCR Germany championship this year and currently 2nd in the junior championship.
Is that winning Iriz 83 driven by the legendary driver Farique Hairuman?
Our local hero who took the Waja/Impian in 2002 and Gen-2 to race in BTCC British Touring Car Championship ,
Fariqe Hairuman is definitely the most successful Malaysian in International touring car racing. He also won races in Japans Super Taikyu Championship, won the Tokachi 24hrs race, Dubai 24hrs and many more. Another Malaysian motorsports legend and like Karamjit Singh, never got the recognition they truely deserved.
The mentor program is a good idea. Those lucky will be exposed to a professional works team environment and hopefully will be able to use the experience to elevate local motorsports level.
If iriz r3 win with campro 1.6 vvt and punch cvt, i will respect uolls..